{"id":14891,"date":"2024-06-19T07:38:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T05:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/amazon-uk-workers-begin-vote-on-gaining-union-recognition-for-first-time\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T07:38:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T05:38:34","slug":"amazon-uk-workers-begin-vote-on-gaining-union-recognition-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/amazon-uk-workers-begin-vote-on-gaining-union-recognition-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon UK workers begin vote on gaining union recognition for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials will arrive at tech firm\u2019s West Midlands site on Wednesday to begin a legally binding ballot process<\/p>\n<p>Amazon workers in the UK have come a step closer to gaining union recognition for the first time as officials from the GMB arrive at the tech firm\u2019s Coventry depot to kick off a month-long ballot process.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from the union are to visit the West Midlands site on Wednesday after the GMB was granted the right to hold the legally binding ballot by the independent Central Arbitration Committee. Amazon had rejected a request for voluntary recognition.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jun\/19\/gmb-to-visit-amazons-coventry-depot-to-hold-vote-for-union-recognition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/acc0b586adce7d3bb7c4dbbdbe4c29898deb5dd0\/0_260_6720_4032\/master\/6720.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3f6a414b64a053c5722fb07a4752b7b6\" title=\"Amazon UK workers begin vote on gaining union recognition for first time\" \/>Officials will arrive at tech firm\u2019s West Midlands site on Wednesday to begin a legally binding ballot process<br \/>\nAmazon workers in the UK have come a step closer to gaining union recognition for the first time as officials from the GMB arrive at the tech firm\u2019s Coventry depot to kick off a month-long ballot process.<br \/>\nOfficials from the union are to visit the West Midlands site on Wednesday after the GMB was granted the right to hold the legally binding ballot by the independent Central Arbitration Committee. Amazon had rejected a request for voluntary recognition. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials will arrive at tech firm\u2019s West Midlands site on Wednesday to begin a legally binding ballot process Amazon workers in the UK have come a step closer to gaining union recognition for the first time as officials from the GMB arrive at the tech firm\u2019s Coventry depot to kick off a month-long ballot process. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/amazon-uk-workers-begin-vote-on-gaining-union-recognition-for-first-time\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon UK workers begin vote on gaining union recognition for first time<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}